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Nubank

São Paulo-headquartered digital bank that became one of the largest financial institutions in Latin America, with a purple Mastercard, free digital account and Nu Invest brokerage.

Updated 29 April 2026 · Brazilian Startup index

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Nubank is the reference benchmark for Brazilian fintech scale: mobile-first onboarding, customer-experience obsession, in-house engineering, regulatory navigation with the Banco Central and an IPO on NYSE/B3 (BDR NUBR33). For founders it shows how a single hated category (credit cards) can be reinvented into a continent-spanning platform.

Sectorfintech
Stagegrowth
FundingPublic (NYSE: NU)
Employees8,000+
Founded2013